The Central Executive Committee lof the Soviet Union this afternoon heard the appeal for pardon of the eight members of the counter-revolutionary organization called "Indus trial Party" and decided as follows:
Considering the fact that the sentenced men not only repented their; jenines but by the testimony given during the judicial investigation revealed all details of their organization which acted as an agency and the executor of the directions iven by the interventionists abroad and especially by French military and political circles, together with! such organizations as the White] Russian Torgprom: furthermore, in; consideration of the fact that the Soviet Government cannot be guided the mere desire for revenge pai ticularly against criminals who have confessed, repented and rendered harmless, it is decided to commute: ithe death sentences, on Ramzin, Charnowsky, Kalinikov, Laritehev Jand Fedotov to ten years penal sertitude besides five years loss of civil rights and confiscation of their properties. The ten years inprisonment sentences on Otchkin, Sitnin and Kuprianov to be reduced to eight years with confiscation of thei [properties and loss of i for five fears—-Trans-Ocea: Min.
Experts continue to make their investigations and tests with a view to finding the actual cause of the dicaster ad of proposing measure to avert a similar catastrophe happening again. As far as is knows, no traces of poison.gras have been found in the.post mortem examit but unfortunately there ai still quite a big number of afficten people lying in the hospitals of whom some are not expected to survive—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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